[ofa-general] backups

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:32 -0700, Jeff Becker wrote:
> I'm backing up /data/pub/scm. A quick "du -chL" shows it to be 4.2G.

I think you can publish output of "du -schL /data/pub/scm/*". So we
could ask most space consuming users to pack their repos (with
'git-repack -a -d').

Sasha

> Perhaps I only need to backup a subset of /data/pub/scm? Thanks.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> On 6/20/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
> >  > Hi. I've started backing up the git trees and the web content using
> >  > rsync. John Companies gave us a 10G NFS partition for this. I've done
> >  > two backups and there's only 800M left. Also, I haven't backed up the
> >  > daily builds yet. I was told we could get more space for one dollar
> >  > per GB per month. Depending on the budget, we should increase this
> >  > backup space. How should we proceed? Thanks.
> >
> > Where is all the space going?  A full kernel git tree (with more than
> > two years of history) takes less than 150 MB of storage for me.  How
> > are we using up so much space?
> >
> > Also, FWIW, amazon S3 is $0.15 / GB-month + $0.10 for each GB
> > transferred in.  Of course it's probably a lot less convenient to back
> > up to.
> >
> >  - R.
> >
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